Arthur Schwartz Quotes

What I love about Brooklyn is there are more wonderful little joints than anywhere.

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• The breaking wave and the muscle as it contracts obey the same law. Delicate line gathers the body's total strength in a bold balance. Shall my soul meet so severe a curve, journeying on its way to form?

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • Soul
  • Law
  • Balance

• Obviously, I am a huge Matt Morrison fan, and I am a big Lea Michele fan because I know those guys from way back.

  

  Aaron Lazar
  • Fan
  • Matt Morrison
  • Lea Michele

• Most Americans have no memory of the designs Franklin Roosevelt's New Dealers had for postwar-American foreign policy. Human rights, self-determination and an end to European colonization in the developing world, nuclear disarmament, international law, the World Court, the United Nations - these were all ideas of the progressive left.

  

  Kai Bird
  • World
  • American
  • Law

• In 1995, I founded a storytelling program for children called Neighborhood Bridges in collaboration with the Children's Theatre Company of Minneapolis, which is 15 elementary schools in the Twin Cities.

  

  Jack Zipes
  • Children
  • Theatre
  • Collaboration

• Luckily, I have been offered the chance to play a South American, Hispanic and even a character from the Middle East in films. There are also a lot of TV series in the U.S. that have a strong presence of actors from India.

  

  Madhur Mittal
  • Character
  • American
  • Strong

• When I was a kid, of course I wanted to be the fastest, the loudest and the one with the biggest drum set, but obviously my aspirations have changed a bit since then.

  

  Taylor Hawkins Foo Fighters
  • Changed
  • Kid
  • Loudest

• Where there is Torah it sustains the world.

  

  Ovadia Yosef
  • World
  • Where
  • Torah

• The most valuable thing you can make is a mistake - you can't learn anything from being perfect.

  

  Adam Osborne
  • Perfect
  • Mistake
  • Learn

• A lot of our fiscal deficit went to fund consumption and really did not get used to build investment and infrastructure. The trouble is, you can get a spurt in GDP growth, which may not be sustainable. I would much rather build the gradient of a long-term marathon.

  

  Uday Kotak
  • Long
  • May
  • You

• All my concerts had no sounds in them; they were completely silent. People had to make up their own music in their minds!

  

  Yoko Ono
  • People
  • Up
  • Music

• Above all, we owe it to the children of the world to stop the conflicts and to create new horizons for them.

  

  F. W. de Klerk
  • World
  • Children
  • Stop

• The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • World
  • Book
  • Travel

• As humans, we have the tendency to call on God only when we think that we're in dire straits as opposed to cultivating a real relationship with Him every day. And that's what my music tries to convey to all the listeners - try to cultivate it every day.

  

  Yolanda Adams
  • Music
  • God
  • Real

• I'm working harder now than ever before. I couldn't turn down the BBC job because I've never been offered the opportunity of killing three or four people on screen before!

  

  Adam Faith
  • People
  • Job
  • Opportunity

• If people are worried about the size of their trailers, I kind of say their priorities are off.

  

  Taylor Hackford
  • People
  • Kind
  • Priorities

• I put a Phrygian cap on the old dictionary.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Old
  • Dictionary
  • Cap

• I have always been interested in fashion and even contemplated being a fashion designer at one point of time.

  

  Karan Johar
  • Time
  • Fashion
  • Always

• For me, photography is not just about exposing film, it's about exposing the viewer to something new, a place they haven't gone before, but most importantly, to people that they might be afraid of.

  

  iO Tillett Wright
  • People
  • Film
  • Photography

• I'm no more or less Jewish than any other Jew. Israel has survived because we haven't forgot our Judaism, but there are some Israelis who did forget.

  

  Arcadi Gaydamak

• The best of men are only men at their very best. Patriarchs, prophets, and apostles, - martyrs, fathers, reformers, puritans, - all are sinners, who need a Savior: holy, useful, honorable in their place - but sinners after all.

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • Men

• When I have time, I really enjoy cooking.

  

  Kevin Whately
  • Time
  • Cooking

• I'm not one about trying to slow things down. What I try to do is create an atmosphere for my family where we can pretty much have whatever.

  

  Jada Pinkett Smith
  • Trying
  • Family
  • Pretty

• I love the conversation between film and music.

  

  Agnes Obel
  • Music

• What I love about Brooklyn is there are more wonderful little joints than anywhere.

  

  Arthur Schwartz